Ben Carlson

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The Rational Reminder Podcast · Ben Carlson: Investing at All-Time Highs | #412 · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

And then it boomed again, another lost decade, and then another boom this decade.

And so I think that's just kind of the thing that a lot of people forget.

When things are going well, people tend to think like, oh, nothing can ever stop this train.

And when things are going poorly, it's like, oh, this is never going to turn around.

But all of these things are cyclical, and nothing works forever.

I think that's the point.

And when the US did go through this lost decade, all these other asset classes disappeared.

did okay.

Born stocks did better.

Emerging markets and REITs and bonds and small cap value and all these different other strategies did pretty well when the US went through the last decade.

And it was just the S&P 500, you know?

So again, another feather in the cap of diversification.

And I've been hearing for years now, like, why would I invest in anything else?

And obviously, a lot of those people weren't around or don't remember that.

We did have a lost second not that long ago.

Obviously, there's other reasons.

But this is kind of the meaner version from that.

We had that really bad period.

Now we're in a really good period.

The bad periods tend to follow the good periods and vice versa.

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